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Topic: Legacy FireWire Driver with the New F ireFace 400 Driver or not

I am using a FireFace 400 under Windows 7. With the latest driver do I still need to use the Legacy Firewire Driver or should I now select the default Firewire Driver?

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Re: Legacy FireWire Driver with the New F ireFace 400 Driver or not

Just try. If it doesn't work change back.

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  • Registered: 2009-10-19
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Re: Legacy FireWire Driver with the New F ireFace 400 Driver or not

As of driver version 2.998 you don't need to use the legacy firewire driver

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Re: Legacy FireWire Driver with the New F ireFace 400 Driver or not

Tnadav, I wouldn't count on that. Last week I did a quick test with a new Imac 21" and Windows 7 Enterprise RTM. The Imac uses a Texas Instrument based Firewire chipset and I had to turn the Windows driver to "(legacy)" in order to make it work even while using the latest Fireface driver 2.9991.

  • Registered: 2008-06-26
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Re: Legacy FireWire Driver with the New F ireFace 400 Driver or not

What was the problem with the new imac? crackling?
/Uwe

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Re: Legacy FireWire Driver with the New F ireFace 400 Driver or not

As far as I remember the DAWs could not access the Fireface at all (DAW stalled for several minutes, playback could not be started).

I will have access to both the 21" and 27" Imacs soon again. I will test them and report back.

7 Reply by Timur Born (edited by Timur 2010-01-04 12:10:29)

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Re: Legacy FireWire Driver with the New F ireFace 400 Driver or not

I checked again, only the "(legacy)" driver works on the 21" Imac with TI chipset on Windows 7 RTM Enterprise 32-bit. Using FF400 driver 2.9991.

The other two drivers allow the FF Settings and Totalmix to load, but no audio is output from neither Ableton Live (ASIO, DirectX/Wave) nor Windows Media Player nor Windows Mixer (no sound when clicking on the Master fader).

Furthermore when chosing the ASIO driver in Live it takes a second or two and Live's CPU meter stays empty (not even showing 0%).

Question is if there are any more differences between the RTM and the final product. I will install Windows 7 Business/Professional 64-bit on these machines now. If you think it helps I can install the FF drivers again to check for possible differences!?